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Senior Assistance Foundation Eastbay

Dublin, CA · EIN 94-1652296. Reported 60 grants totalling $9,166,898 to 33 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$110,000median grant
$9,166,898granted, 2021-2024
33organizations funded
50%of grantees funded again the next year
$30.1Massets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Senior Assistance Foundation Eastbay did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $110,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $75,000 and $200,000; the smallest was $15,000 and the largest $500,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$10,000 - $25,000
1 grant
$25,000 - $50,000
1 grant
$50,000 - $100,000
19 grants
$100,000 and Up
39 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Vietnamese American Community Center of East BayOakland, CA$1,390,000442024
Korean Community Center of East BaySan Leandro, CA$995,470442024
Alameda County Community Food BankOakland, CA$600,000222022
Connected HorseRocklin, CA$485,000222023
Legal Assistance for SeniorsOakland, CA$460,000442024
Open Heart KitchenLivermore, CA$450,000112022
Family BridgesOakland, CA$385,000442024
St Mary's CenterOakland, CA$383,350332023
Embrace FoundationLaguna Beach, CA$363,041332024
Davis StreetSan Leandro, CA$350,000222024
Hope Hospice IncDublin, CA$315,600222022
Api Cultural Center IncOakland, CA$300,000332023
J-SeiEmeryville, CA$275,000222023
CchrcFairbanks, AK$272,000112023
Lions Blind Center Diablo ValleyPittsburg, CA$214,000222023
Food Bank CcsolConcord, CA$200,000112024
Lighthouse BlindSeattle, WA$200,000112024
Lighthouse for Blind & Visually ImpairedSan Francisco, CA$200,000112022
Academy of Chinese Culture and Health Sci IncOakland, CA$175,000222022
Ashby Village IncBerkely, CA$125,000222022
Human GoodDuarte, CA$125,000112022
J-SelEmeryville, CA$120,000112022
Mercy Retirement & Care CenterOakland, CA$120,000112023
Buddhist Tzu Chi FoundationSan Dimas, CA$100,000112024
Honor Flight Bay Area FoundationMountain View, CA$100,000222024
Spanish Speaking Unity Council Ala CoOakland, CA$100,000112021
Spectrum Community Services IncHayward, CA$76,552112021
Pittsburg Srhc Res ComPittsburgh, PA$65,000112024
Spectrum Community ServicesAllentown, PA$56,885112024
Honor Flight Bay Area FoiundationMountain View, CA$50,000112022
Presidio SR HousingPittsburg, CA$50,000112024
Senior Support Program of the Tri-ValleyRocklin, CA$50,000112021
MancaCastro Valley, CA$15,000112022

16 of 33 (48%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 50%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 28 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
9 grants
Crime & Legal
4 grants
Recreation & Sports
4 grants
Public & Societal Benefit
2 grants
Health Care
2 grants
Community Improvement
2 grants
Housing & Shelter
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202116$2,073,217$81,675
202217$3,560,000$130,000
202314$2,083,372$134,500
202413$1,450,309$100,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 94% of this one's giving went to organizations in California. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

California
$8.6M
Alaska
$272K
Washington
$200K
Pennsylvania
$122K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc15 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund14 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc11 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program8 shared recipientsThe San Francisco Foundation7 shared recipientsEast Bay Community Foundation6 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $110,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in California.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Senior Assistance Foundation Eastbay's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 4160 Dublin Blvd Suite 100, Dublin, CA, 94568. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 94-1652296 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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